Hi there, On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:47 +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2020-07-12 20:35:56 +0200 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [...] > > What is (unusual but) usable, however, is to *not* use Network > > Manager for wifi, but use IWD+systemd or IWD standalone for wifi, > > and use Network Manager to manage _other_ network components. > > > > In such unusual-but-real setup, wpa-supplicant would be dead > > weight. Lightweight, arguably, but a daemon and therefore > > additional risk of hair-pulling confusions: If wpa-supplicant > > daemon is running, IWD fails to work. > [...] > > On Debian you can only remove the wpa-supplicant if you also > > remove network-manager - which I find is an unnecessary tight > > coupling. > [...] > > Worth considering is that it still may in fact not be *too* unusual > to have systems with no wireless network interface at all. FWIW, and without defending NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant is *not* only for wireless networks, but it could be needed for other networks as well (e.g. because of 802.1x). Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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